Pacific Power outages hit SE Bend, N. of Madras

Bend repairs take two hours; wires also down in CRR

More than 800 Pacific Power customers in southeast Bend lost power for two hours Friday morning when a jumper wire to a power line failed -- and about the time those repairs were done, a new outage hit the Cherry Lane area north of Madras.

All were back online by about 12:15 p.m., he said, beating the 1:30 p.m. estimate of full restoration by over an hour

Two area residents reported much briefer outages, 10 to 20 seconds, on NewsChannel 21's Facebook page.

Then, around 12:20 p.m., a wire fire on a power pole knocked out service to about 150 customers on or near Cherry Lane, north of Madras, Gauntt said. Crews initially estimated that problem would take until around 4 p.m. to complete repairs, but pushed that back to 6 p.m. because the damage was more extensive than originally thought, Gauntt said.

Two wires also reportedly burned and fell along Quail Drive in Crooked River Ranch Friday afternoon.

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